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The Federal Government and the Sabah state government are coordinating basic assistance and temporary accommodation as soon as possible for the victims of the fire in Kampung Bahagia, Sandakan.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim expressed shock over a fire that broke out at 1.32am Sunday (April 19), sweeping through densely packed wooden stilt houses in Kampung Bahagia, a water village in Sandakan, destroying hundreds of homes.

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00:02The federal government and the Sabah state government are coordinating basic assistance
00:07and temporary accommodation as soon as possible for the victims of the fire in Kampung Bahagia,
00:13Sandakan. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said he was shocked when he received
00:20reports of the fire in the village, which had destroyed hundreds of houses. He said in a
00:25Facebook post on Sunday that the priority now is the safety of the victims and immediate
00:31assistance on the ground. About 200 houses were destroyed in the fire in the floating village
00:37early Sunday morning. Sandakan Fire and Rescue Station Chief Jimmy Legang said the station
00:44received a call about the fire at 1.32am and 35 firefighters from the Sandakan and Kinabatangan
00:52stations rushed to the location for extinguishing operations to carry out firefighting operations.
01:00A relief centre at Diwan PPR Batu Sapi was activated at 7am on Sunday to accommodate the affected residents.
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